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Psalms 79
- 1 A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
- 2 They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.
- 3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
- 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
- 5 How long, O Yahweh? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire? BSB transformation LORD -> Yahweh Before How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire? After How long, O Yahweh? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
- 6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
- 7 for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
- 8 Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.
- 9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.
- 10 Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.
- 11 May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
- 12 Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
- 13 Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.